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Theatre Organ Bombarde Cover Stor Becomesexcitingly ALIVE! TheatreOrgan Bombarde JOURNAL of the AMERICAN THEATRE ORGAN ENTHUSIASTS ~· :L~ MacCLAIN • "Melody Mac"· 1900-1967 New Wurlitzer Theatre Organ The modern Theatre Console Organ that combines the grandeur of yesterday with the electronic wizardry of today. Command performance! Wurl itzer combines the classic Horseshoe Design of the immortal Mighty Wurlitzer with the exclusive Total Tone electronic circuitry of today. Knowledge and craftsmanship from the Mighty Wurlitzer Era have produced authentic console dimensions in this magnificent new theatre organ. It stands a part, in an instru­ ment of its size, from all imitative theatre organ • Dual system of tone generation • Authentic Mighty Wurlitzer Horseshoe Design designs. To achieve its big, rich and electrifying • Authentic voicing of theatrical Tibia and tone, Wurlitzer harmonically "photographed" Kinura originating on the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ voices of the Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ to • Four families of organ tone serve as a standard. The resultant voices are au­ • Two 61-note keyboards • 25-note pedal keyboard with two 16' and thentic individually, and when combined they two 8' pedal voices augmented by Sustain blend into a rich ensemble of magnificent dimen­ • Multi-Matic Percussion ® with Ssh-Boom ®, Sustain, Repeat, Attack, Pizzicato, and sion. Then, to crown the accomplishment, we Bongo Percussion incorporated the famous Wurlitzer Multi-Matic • Silicon transistors for minimum maintenance Percussion ® section with exclusive Ssh-Boom ® • Reverb, Slide, Chimes, and Solo controls • Electronic Vibrato (4 settings) that requires no special playing techniques, • Exclusive 2 speed Spectra-Tone ® Sound Pizzicato Touch that was found only on larger pipe in Motion • Two-channel solid state amplifiers, 70 watts organs, Chimes and Slide Control ... and dozens total distributed output of other features that no other organ can offer. • 8 speakers (two rotating) • Theatre furniture styling in walnut or See ... hear ... play this magnificent organ today. antique white and gold URLI ZER means Music to millions pianos • organs • electronic pianos • guitars • _,• stereos • band instruments. DeKalb, Illinois 60115 ~~----ATOS _MIIO&ivBsI LIBRARY THE COVER PHOTO TheatreOrgan Volume 9, No. 5 ORGANIST LEONARD MacLAIN was one of ATOE's best friends and strongest supporters, having been named Honorary Member for 1962. His passing is a genuine Boffibarde loss, not only for his many personal friends, but for the Volume 4, No. 5 theatre organ world at large. But "Melody Mac" has left us some superb theatre organ recordings and a long his­ tory of accomplishments on behalf of the instrument and A. T. 0. E. National Membership is $6.00 per year, the music he knew and loved so well. That he continued which includes a subscription to Theatre Organ/ his contribution up to the closing hours of his life may Bombarde, the official publication of the American be seen in the article on page 3 of this issue. Theatre Organ Enthusiasts. Make check or money order payable to A. T. 0. E., and mail to P. 0 . Box 7404, Bitter Lake Station, Seattle , Wash. 98133. ALL MATERIAL FOR PUBLICATIONS FROM THE MAIN CHAMBER . .. SHOULD BE SENT TO THIS ADDRESS * * * This magazine has been delayed due to the change­ over in publication sites and directors, and in order to A. T.O.E. Officers properly include pertinent articles. Salute to Bill Dick ( Richard H. ) Schrum Peterson on a job well done; and to Tom Kaasa: Richard F. Kline Jr., Vice President Marilyn Schrum, National Secretary Rotsa Ruck! W. "Tiny" James, Treasurer -•- A. T. 0. E. Board of Directors We are all profoundly sad to note the passing of Carl Norvell, Chairman "Melody Mac," who was dear to many of us Dorothy MacClain per~onally, all of us through his contributions to Dr. Phillip C. Olson theatre organ music and A.T.O.E. Don Hall W. "Tiny" James Richard F. Kline Jr. -•- Allen W. Rossiter This looks like a big season coming up. Plans have Judd Walton been made for many outstanding events around the Erwin A. Young Jr. nation, new memberships keep pouring in, and no less than six groups are sincerely interested in A. T. 0. E. Honorary Members Chapter Charters. More chapters are acquiring their 1959- Jesse Crawford own instruments, and A.T.O.E. is building in 1960-Farny Wurlitzer 1961 - Mel Doner all directions. 1962 -Leonard MacClain 1963 -Eddie Dunstedter -•- 1964-Reginald Foort Congratulations to the American Guild of Organists 1965 - Dan Barton on the inception of their own magazine, "The A.G.O. 1966 - W. "Tiny" James Magazine." An article on the history of the A.T.O.E. 1967-Erwin A. Young Jr. has been requested from National, and Billy EDITORIAL STAFF Nalle, Charter Member and journalist extraordinaire Publications Director-Tom Kaasa will write a tome entitled "The Renaissance Of The Theatre Organ." Other A.T.O.E. members will be THEATRE ORGAN asked to contribute, as there is a considerable Editor-George Thompson overlapping of membership in the two groups. Our Associate Editor-Ray Brubacher, best wishes to the new publication. Lloyd Kloss -•- THE BOMBARDE The dates of the next Annual Meeting and Convention, Editor-W. "Stu" Green Associate Editor-Peg Nielson to be held in Los Angeles, has been set Saturday, Advertising Manager-Dewey Cagle July 13 through Tuesday, July 16. The banquet Circulation Manager-Vi Thompson and Annual Membership Meeting will be held in the world famous Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel. Plan your vacations now! Theatre Organ/Bombarde (title registered U.S. Patent Office) is published bi-monthly by the American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts , Richard H. Schrum, president. All rights reserved. Entire contents copy­ righted 1966 by A. T. 0. E., P. 0. Box 7404, Bitter Lake, Washington 98133 . Printed by University Printing Co., Seattle . Advertising address: Dewey Cagle, 329 1 Guido St., Dick Schrum , President Oakland , California, 94602. POSTMASTER: Second Class postage paid at Seattle, Washington. IF UNDELIVERABLE, send form 3579 to A.T.O.E. Circulation Dept., Box 1314, Salinas, Calif. 1 theatre organ I bombarde By Bill Peterson, Number 6 in a series THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE, LOS ANGELES Although not as large as some, this magnificent movie palace truly ranks as one of America's most beautiful. It opened in 1931 with a seating capacity of 2,190, and was designed by S. Charles Lee. Patrons entering were greeted by a crystal fountain at the head of the grand stairway, and could wait for the next show in the handsome paneled oval lounge on the lower level. This room had a wall mounted screen that through prisms projected the image that was on the big auditorium screen. Management also installed electric cigar lighters in the walls of the lounge. Adjacent to this room was a complete soda fountain cafe with counter plus table and chairs. The house is still operating, and the 2/ 10 Wurlitzer is still intact, having been used by Ann Leaf for a concert in recent years. Photo from Helgeson Collection october 1967 THEDELAWARE VALLEY CHAPTERLANDS ITS MOLLER by ROY H. CARUTH Photos by Robert B. Little The recent death of one of organdom 's again, despite the cold that prevailed rn greats, Leonard MacClain, makes this story the auditorium that day. a poignant tribute to the man. Written months before his passing, it is a much Various members took their turns, de­ more telling tribute to "Melody Mac" than spite numb fingers and tightly buttoned any eulogy we could write.-W.S .G. overcoats . The Delaware Valley Chapter of Wayne Zimmerman, as a boy, used to ATOE met on Sunday, Feb. 26, 1967, at come to this theatre and wonder what the Sedgewick Theatre in Philadelphia, was hidden under those covers in the pit . He was too young to have heard theatre Pa., for a farewell salute to the shuttered Violet Egger, the Sedgewick's last regular or­ theatre and to hear the 3-19 Moller ganist (to 1932), took a job as theatre cashier played for the last time in its original to be near her beloved instrument. She fondles home. it as skillfully today as she did "back when." The meeting was called to order by stored. The blower motor was turned on our lovely president, Dottie MacClain. but there was only silence ; the wind With words of welcome to the group trunk had been damaged. It was decided and "thanks " to the organ repair crew, to have this repaired and then determine she "presented " the organ to the meet­ whether restoration was possible. In June rng. of that year, the chapter met at the the­ First called to sit and play at the organ atre to see and hear a few ranks in the bench was Violet Egger. Violet was the Solo chamber . By June 1963, the first concert was held there with Leonard MacClain at the console. All pipes and traps were by then in working condition and sounding wonderful. In November 1965, Lowell Ayars presented the Moller Barbara Fesmire in concert. Shortly afterward the theatre was closed, the heat turned off and the organists in their "golden days." Wayne building reverted to its owners. A few did a beautiful job at the console, just a months ago, the building (with all fur­ neighborhood boy who got to know nishings, including the organ ) was of­ "what was under those covers" in the pit. fered at auction. The Delaware Valley How was this made possible? How (Continued on N ext Page) did it all come about? In February 1962, a group from the AN OLD FRIEND-Leonard MacClain, in one of his last public appearances, makes the Moller Delaware Valley chapter went to see if come alive with the beauty of his music . Wife the Sedgewick Theatre organ could be re- Dottie plays a heat lamp on his hands.
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